Chronicle of Higher Education Ranks Harvard and Cal Tech Tops Among U.S. Research Universities; UCSF, Berkeley and UWisc Lead Public Universities

You can debate the validity of these metrics endlessly. You can question whether citations and pubs are the best indicators of university quality and impact, and you can deliberate over whether or not the social sciences and humanities should be evaluated using metrics grounded in a physical sciences "lab output" model. Yet according to a calculation of publications and citations, Harvard University tops the recent Chronicle of Higher Ed rankings of doctoral research universities. At #2, UCSF ranks as the top public university overall, and Berkeley and UWisc are the other top placing public universities at #12 and #13 respectively (just behind Penn and Princeton, but ahead of Stanford.)